Lekwa Municipality
latest news & developments
PODCAST | Standerton fights to get municipality working
Ron Derby, Sarah Smit and Khaya Koko in conversation about Eskom’s ‘sabotaged’ Tukuka power station and why Lekwa local municipality faces rolling blackouts and crumbling…
Non-delivery sparks citizens’ legal action in Eastern Cape
Fed-up residents and businesses are turning to the courts to get their local councils to take action on power outages, sewage overflows, unrepaired roads and other failures to…
AG’s report reveals the municipalities where money goes to waste
Municipalities are in complete disarray, with many of them flagged by the auditor-general for deliberate lack of accountability and tolerance for transgressions by political and…
Volunteers fill municipal-sized hole
Athandiwe Saba continues her reporting with a story about the people of Standerton who have taken it on themselves to fix things
Lekwa municipality won’t answer questions about why children died in fire
Three children are dead. More than a dozen homes have been gutted by fires in the past six months. And, as the Mail & Guardian reported last week, all this could have been…
Editorial: Corrupt, negligent municipalities kill
Local government has long been the site of gross mismanagement and corruption. Both of these deny people their hopes and dreams and can lead to them also losing their lives.
No firetruck to save three siblings
Lekwa Municipality has been without a fire engine for six months — even though half a million rand has been paid for the rental of two
Tens of millions spent on repairs but sewage still flows in the Vaal
The Vaal River is the lifeblood for almost 50% of the South African population yet at its banks around the Lekwa municipality, sewage flows into it